Photographs of sanatoriums, [1908?-194-?], (bulk [1908?]-1930).

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Photographs of sanatoriums, [1908?-194-?], (bulk [1908?]-1930).

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The Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control and its predecessors were responsible for managing state tuberculosis and other public health hospitals and operating a tuberculosis prevention and control program in Massachusetts. Photographs of sanatoriums were taken to document the buildings and operations of the four original state institutions for tubercular patients. Those from Westfield were used to make a series of postcards. Topics by institutions are as follows--Rutland: wards, dining halls, laboratory, kitchen, reception area, dairy, building exteriors, and winter huts; North Reading: juvenile patients and building exteriors; Lakeville: building exteriors; Westfield: juvenile patients in school, at play, in workshop settings, in religious activities, scout clubs, and holiday activities; also administrative buildings, farm, garden, bakery, and cafeteria. Photographs of Rutland and Westfield are most numerous. For additional Lakeville photographs see: Lakeville Hospital. Photographs of facilities and activities ((M-Ar)1583X)

0.58 cubic ft. (ca. 330 photographs in 2 boxes)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Westfield State Sanatorium (Mass.)

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Lakeville State Sanatorium (Mass.)

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North Reading State Sanatorium (Mass.)

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Rutland State Sanatorium (Mass.)

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Massachusetts. Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control.

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The Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives (officially the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives) were established preliminarily in 1907, when they were known as the Massachusetts Commission on Hospitals for Consumptives, and permanently in 1910. They were replaced by the Division of Sanatoria in the Dept. of Public Health in 1919, which agency was known successively by various names; by 1968, from which time it ceased to function at the divisional level, as the Division of Sanato...

Chadwick, Henry Dexter, 1872-

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Henry Dexter Chadwick, M.D., was the first superintendent of Westfield State Sanatorium (Mass.), 1908-1929; controller of tuberculosis for Detroit, Mich., 1929-1933; Massachusetts commissioner of public health, 1933-1938; president of the National Tuberculosis Association, 1939-1940, and of the Massachusetts Tuberculosis League, 1940s. He also served Massachusetts as a member of the Special Commission on Public Health and the Governor's Committee to Study State Hospitals. From the de...